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M. HERMANN.

METHOD 0F SBGURING A BosoM To A SHIRT BODY Patented Dee. 22,1885.

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l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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METHOD OF SECURING A BOSOIVI TO A SHIRT-BODY.

SPECIFICATION `forming part of Letters Patent No, 332,799, dated December 22, 1885.

y Application led March 31, 1885. Serial No. 160,734. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, MAX HERMANN,a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in shirts, in which the bosom has a loose border or edge y that has the whole of its rear surface formed by a rear layer of .the bosom.

The general objects of my improvement are to produce such a shirt with the bosom neatly and durably nished and attached to the shirtbody at a cheap rate, to avoid having the front edge and surface of the border part of the bosom formed by any of the main bosomlayers, and to furnish and finish the front or face of the bosom with a raised border-band having folded edges and constituting the front surface of the edge iy of the bosom without extending rearward across the outer edge thereof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of the front of a Shirt that embodies one form of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the bosom of the same shirt as made ready to be attached to the shirt-body. Fig. 3 is a section of a part of the same bosom at the line z z in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section at the line y y in Fig. 1 of a part of the same bosom and shirt-body secured together. Figs. 5, 7, and 9 represent sections of the borderpart of variously-constituted bosoms; and Figs. 6, 8, and 10 are like sections of the same bosoms attached to a layer of the body of the shirt-front, all according to my present invention. Fig. 11 represents a part of a separate strip having folded edges and constituting the raised border and nishing-band on the front side of the bosom. Figs. 12, 13, and 14 indicate sections of the border parts of bosoms constructed and attached according to myinvention to variously-constituted shirt-bodies.

Similar parts are marked by like letters in the different figures, and the parts are shown disproportioned to better illustrate the construction.

Ais a layer of fabric,which in Figs. 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 14 constitutes the body of the shirtfront, and in Figs. 1, 4, 6, 8, and 10 is continued across the back of the bosom. In Figs. 12, 13, and 15 the layer A is re-enforced 5 5' by a front layer, B, which is attached with the layer A to the bosom. In Fig. 12 the' layer A is extended across theback of the bosom, and thelayer B may be likewise extended.

The bosom is to be made of any desired 6o shape, and of any proper number of layers, thicknesses, or plies of woven fabric, and either closed, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or in two lateral parts or halves with a lengthwise slit between to constitute an open-front bosom. rIhe bosom is shown with a front layer, C, and a rear layer, D, and in Figs. 9, 10, 12, and 15 with an intermediate layer, E.-

In Figs. 13, 14, and 15 no body-layer of the shirt-front is continued across the back side 7o of the bosom; but that side is covered in Figs. 13 and 14 by a separate lining, F,which is attached with the body-layer Aor layers A B to the bosom-layers. The rear layer, D, of the bosom is folded forward and inward, either directly upon itself, as illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, and 14, or in front of one or more of the bosom-layers, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, and l5. G is aseparate strip of woven fabric, which is folded 8o rearward and inward along its two edges, and is arranged with its' two lapping parts, a a, against the front side of the border portion of the assembled bosom-layers, and with the outer edge fold, b, of the strip along the outer edge fold, c, of the rear bosom-layer, D, and is there attached to the bosom alone bya line of stitches, d, extending through the folded outer edge part of the strip G, through the folded outer part of the rear layer, D, and through 9o whatever layer or layers of the bosom shall intervene at said line of stitches, substantially as illustrated by Figs. 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9. The bosom having the border-band G thus attached by the row of stitches d is attached to the layer A or layers A B of the shirt-front by an inner row of stitches, e, extending through and along the inner folded edge part of the finishing-strip G, through the layers of the bosom and body of the shirt-front, and through roo thebosom-lining when present, substantially as indicated by Figs. 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15.

By this improvement the shirt is furnished with abosom provided with a loose border or edge iy, H, extending outward from the inner row of stitches, e, and having its rear surface, f, and the rear part, c, of its edge formed wholly bythe rearlayer, D, of the bosom, and its front surface, g, and onlytheforwardpart, b, of its edge formed by the separate folded strip G, which constitutes a raised ornamental band,that covers and conceals the contiguous raw edges of the bosomlayers, as shown, and may be of any desired different quality, shade, or color from the main layers of the bosom.

Some shirts have been devised with a bosom formed with a loose border having its rear surface and the rear part of its outer edge formed by the forwardly and inwardly folded border portion of one of the rear layers of the bosom, while the loose border of the bosom did not have any raised strip or band on its front side, but had its front surface and the forward part of its outer edge composed of the border part of the front layer of the bosom.

Some shirts heretofore made by me have had abosomwith an edge ily having its front surface and the forward part of its edge formed bya separate raised strip with folded edges, and the rear surface and the rear portion of the edge of the same fly formed by a reversely-folded edge portion of one of the layers of the body of the shirt-front, and Ido not herein claim such a shirt.

I claim as my invention- The method of securing a bosom to a shirtbody by folding forward the edge part of the rear layer of the bosom, placing on and along the front side of the border part of the bosom a strip folded rearward along its edges, and stitching the outer edge part of the folded strip to the bosom-layers, and the inner ledge part of said strip to the bosom-layers and shirt-body, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 28th day of March, 1885.

MAX HERMANN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES PIEPER, AUSTIN F. PARK. 

